The Olympics, U.S. presidential elections--2008 has been a big year for big events. The companies profiled here, who made many of those events happen, predict an overall increase in business of 8 percent over last year. But that's down from the 1...
Businesspeople are holding their breath this week as the U.S. Congress wrangles over the astonishing $700 billion bailout proposed by the Bush Administration to save the sinking financial sector. Although Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is urgin...
The event industry in Houston is beginning to resume normal operations in the wake of Hurricane Ike, which reached landfall in Texas on Sept. 13. Widespread flooding and power outages have made life miserable for thousands.
Deborah Elias, CSEP...
Houston's event industry is pooling resources and enjoying support from other regions as it struggles to return to normal after the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Ike over the weekend.
Houston-based tech experts LD Systems said today that its operat...
Houston's event industry is fighting to get back on its feet after Hurricane Ike plowed through Texas over the weekend. The storm is now causing power outages in the Midwest. Ike has been blamed for 38 deaths in the U.S.
Houston's venerable Part...
Are Wall Street's woes wrecking the party? Is the rash of bad business news affecting your corporate holiday party business? Let us know by taking the poll--strictly anonymous--on our Web site (see lower right, beneath the "Resource Center") .....
Are you a great tabletop talent? Special Events Magazine will select the best tabletop designs in two budget categories at The Special Event 2009, Jan. 28-30 in San Diego. The Tabletop Competition--a highlight of the show floor--is the industry's...
This year's Primetime Emmy Awards Governors Ball, slated for Sept. 21, will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a traditional diamond motif. The media saw a preview of the "diamond anniversary"-themed affair on Thursday.
Once again under the dir...
The daughter and son-in-law of the late James E. Buckman, a leading figure in the linen industry, yesterday announced the founding of the Ernst & Young, James E. Buckman Memorial Scholarship/Fellowship for students at Indiana University's Kelley ...
